Are you a geek?
Here is a list of things that would make you a geek
- If you know what SVN stands for
- If you have ever had a dream about subversion
- You know what a multi-dimensional array is
- In the bathroom stall at work, you have long division as graffiti
- The for loop is your best friend
- The term “Variable Scope” is super dooper important to you
- Best practices is your standard practice ( because your that good! )
- You have created your own content management system
- When you read posts asking if your a geek, then more than likely your a geek!
- Wears code snob T-shirts like “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1″ ( source: Jimmy Albin )
- You bring your own keyboard to work ( source: Jimmy Albin )
- You’re afraid of bosses who don’t code ( source: Jimmy Albin )
- You bring buzzword bingo to meetings ( source: Jimmy Albin )
- You know what a googlewhack is AND have won!
- If you have ever said ( out-loud ) “I am addicted to INNER JOIN’s”
- If /^[^@]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z]+$/ is not hieroglyphics.
- If this makes you chuckle: binary kicks 01100001 01110011 01110011
- If you don’t own a smart phone because you are proving how NON geek you are
- If Everyone else’s code is confusing and not well documented
- If you have researched the difference between GIT and SVN
- If you have used a workout ball as a chair. ( No offense Evan! )
- You can assume that most tech support calls fall under the iD10T error
- You can spot a rick roll from 1000 parsecs
- Have you ever left a voice mail and after saying your name you said (.com) dot com
- Its funny to read a reference to "All your base are belong to us".
- If you have heard of the programming language “R”.
- You giggle when thinking that the programming language C++'s name contains a bug: "After all, it should really be called ++C, because we only want to use a language after it has been improved." ( Source: Book - Core Java Volume I )
- Unix...best if used before: Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 GMT 2038 ( source: le-internet )
- Black holes are where God divided by zero ( source: le-internet )
- My daily Unix command list: unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep. ( source: le-internet )
- function compressSleep(){ tar -cvwf 8HoursOfsleep 4HoursOfSleep.tar } is something you would use if it was available
- Did you just rsync my tarball, is a statement not a joke!
This is in no way a complete list, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I will be glad to add some of your ideas.